ETIENNE-JULES MAREY FUSIL PHOTOGRAPHIQUE 1882 Marey designs and builds what was to become the world's first portable motion picture camera (Janssen's pistol/gun camera of 1874 was not portable, but canon-like and stationary). Marey designs and builds a camera in the shape of a 'rifle' which is used to take 12 frames of birds in flight. The 'Chronophotographs' as they were called, were taken at a speed of 1/720th of a second. Marey called his "rifle" a Fusil Photographique . Disk Used...
Topics: ETIENNE-JULES MAREY, FUSIL PHOTOGRAPHIQUE, 1882